Shatter was the first commercially published comic where all art for publication was entered by hand on the computer as opposed to later methods of scanning in inked pages for color application.

[1] Until the late 1970s to early 1980s computer generated comics were done with traditional text and line-printing techniques or semigraphics, ascii art, and BBC's ceefax teletext.

The drawings were difficult to manage due to the limited 9" 72ppi monochrome screen (512×342 pixels) as only roughly 2/3 of the page was able to be worked on at one time.

The only exception were that rough pencil drafts started the process which allowed editors to approve layouts and writers to begin creating the stories.

During this same period, Shatter appeared simultaneously as a one-shot special and as a backup feature in First Comics’ Jon Sable title in 1985.

A science-fiction hero called... SHATTER.The Shatter (2006) trade paperback collection features this synopsis: In the day before tomorrow, all jobs are temporary, and control is in the hands of a few ruthless men.

The world's biggest, most influential media syndicate has accidentally discovered a limitless source of cheap creative talent: stealing people's brains out of their heads.